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ξαίνω

xaino

scratch, comb

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Where it lives

  • Statesman 3 · 1.77/10k
  • Orestes 1 · 1.02/10k
  • Sophist 1 · 0.62/10k
  • Politics 1 · 0.15/10k
  • Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k
  • Laws 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant — LSJ

scratch, comb, card, dress wool

scratch, comb, esp. of wool, card, εἴριά τε ξαίνειν Od. 22.423 ; στέμματα ξ., of Fate, E. l.c.: abs., dress wool, Trag.Adesp. 9, Ar. Lys. 536, Ec. 89, 92, Pl. Sph. 226b, etc.: c. gen. partit., τῶν ἐρίων ξ. Ar. Fr. 717, Crates Theb. 3 : metaph., ξ. εὔνοιαν εἰς καλαθίσκον Ar. Lys. 579 ; ξ. εἰς πῦρ, prov. of labour in vain, Pl. Lg. 780c.

2 full, dress

of cloth, full, dress it, ξ. τὸν πέπλον Ar. Av. l.c.

II thresh, fret, mangle, fretted, mangle, lacerate, to be irritated, sore, fret, worry

metaph., thresh, ἡνίκʼ ἂν ξανθῇ στάχυς dub. in A. Fr. 304.7 (leg. ἡνίκʼ ἐξανθῇ); fret, mangle, of waves, ξανθὲν ὑπὸ σπιλάδι AP 6.223 (Antip.), cf. 23 ; ὕδωρ ξαινόμενον fretted into foam, A.R. 4.1266 ; of bodies, mangle, lacerate, ξαινόμενος περὶ τῇ γῇ D.H. 3.30 ; esp. of flogging, ξ. τὸ σῶμα μάστιξι ibid. ; ῥάβδοις ἔξαινον τὰ σώματα Plu. Publ. 6, cf. Ach.Tat. 6.20 (Pass.) : c. acc. cogn., ξ. κατὰ τοῦ νώτου πολλὰς (sc. πληγάς) D. 19.197 ; μελεϊστὶ ξ. Philostr. Her. 19.18 ; also ξαίνουσα παρειὰς δ

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